Merged revisions 77712,77740-77741,77756,77886,77902,77936 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r77712 | tarek.ziade | 2010-01-23 11:52:57 -0600 (Sat, 23 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  fixed the 64bits tests for get_platform() - mac osx
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  r77740 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-24 21:58:21 -0600 (Sun, 24 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  compare types with is not ==
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  r77741 | facundo.batista | 2010-01-25 00:15:01 -0600 (Mon, 25 Jan 2010) | 3 lines

  Added a note about Event.is_set() syntax being new to 2.6
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  r77756 | tarek.ziade | 2010-01-26 11:20:37 -0600 (Tue, 26 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  fixed bdist_msi imports and added a test module for distutils.command.bdist_msi
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  r77886 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-31 12:09:34 -0600 (Sun, 31 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  move distutils.rst to different toc
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  r77902 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-01-31 20:04:26 -0600 (Sun, 31 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r77936 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-02 20:19:14 -0600 (Tue, 02 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py b/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py
index 0f8f89a..5b50901 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py
@@ -145,14 +145,14 @@
         get_config_vars()['CFLAGS'] = ('-fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g '
                                        '-fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes')
 
-        maxsize = sys.maxsize
+        maxint = sys.maxsize
         try:
             sys.maxsize = 2147483647
             self.assertEquals(get_platform(), 'macosx-10.3-ppc')
             sys.maxsize = 9223372036854775807
             self.assertEquals(get_platform(), 'macosx-10.3-ppc64')
         finally:
-            sys.maxsize = maxsize
+            sys.maxsize = maxint
 
 
         self._set_uname(('Darwin', 'macziade', '8.11.1',
@@ -164,15 +164,14 @@
 
         get_config_vars()['CFLAGS'] = ('-fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g '
                                        '-fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes')
-
-        maxsize = sys.maxsize
+        maxint = sys.maxsize
         try:
             sys.maxsize = 2147483647
             self.assertEquals(get_platform(), 'macosx-10.3-i386')
             sys.maxsize = 9223372036854775807
             self.assertEquals(get_platform(), 'macosx-10.3-x86_64')
         finally:
-            sys.maxsize = maxsize
+            sys.maxsize = maxint
 
         # macbook with fat binaries (fat, universal or fat64)
         os.environ['MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET'] = '10.4'